The Physics midterm is tomorrow!, originally uploaded by Darien Library. Putting one of the study rooms to good and total use!
Monthly Archives: January 2009
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I’ll be using this example and article in classes. Jessamyn hits the nail on the head: “Well, at least they’re reading..” That line comes from this article in the Journal-Sentinal Online with the fairly typical headline Libraries’ many benefits rediscovered in hard economic times. Good, right? I was enjoying reading about it until I hit these lines… Library directors report circulation spikes for last month of about 10% when compared with December 2007. “Escapism,” was Waukesha library director Jane Ameel’s concise speculation on the re-emergence of libraries’ attraction. “I wish we were giving them David Copperfield, but so much of our business is in […]
Library Word Find Puzzle, originally uploaded by herzogbr. Brian Herzog writes: Everyone knows how a Word Find puzzle works. Use the Add Note tool above to circle the words. Read more about this on my website. Here are the words to find: ala archive bookgroup books budget catalog circulation community cookery databases dewey dvd fiction flickr genealogy ill information library librarycard loc localauthor network patrons programs reading reference request selfcheck service storytime unshelved website weeding wordpress
From Dominican GSLIS student Genevieve Grove: From Tom Peters: From Karen Schneider: And Carolyn Wood:
Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope From the conclusion: Many people, including scholars, advertisers and political activists, see online social networks as an opportunity to study the propagation of ideas, the formation of social bonds and viral marketing, among others. This view should be tempered by our findings that a link between any two people does not necessarily imply an interaction between them. As we showed in the case of Twitter, most of the links declared within Twitter were meaningless from an interaction point of view. Thus the need to find the hidden social network; the one that […]
Easy to Contact… anywhere. But, not sure how its possible, left out a few things the first time…, originally uploaded by ktmikel. My friend Kurt posts an interesting question… Easy to Contact… anywhere. But, not sure how its possible, left out a few things the first time…is this a good thing? I can be reached virtually every waking minute. Updated to truly reflect every subscription and or communication service I have access to.
Jeff Dawson, Director of the Lester Public Library writes: I wanted to share the ‘Best of the Best’ winner of the 2008 Wisconsin Library Webbie Awards: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/mats/webbies/default.asp Gerard Saylor has used YouTube in a very creative and I think hilarious way – his book reviews and author interviews are excellent! I called Gerard on the phone the second I found his YouTube collection (way before the Webbies) and he is a fine example of a young library director keeping things interesting, not only for his patrons, but perhaps even more important – for himself! Here is the link:http://www.youtube.com/user/LDFargoLibrary I love the videos […]
You hold community nights for customers to talk to you and go out to where they are and try to hold conversations where it is most convenient for them. From all of this, you try to steer your library on the right course, paying heed to and responding to input. But what are you not hearing? As with any healthy relationship, personal or public, you need to hear what’s not being said. What about the silence? What are people not telling you and why? How do you measure the silence? First, recognize that there are two types of silence, actual […]
Lindy shared her project for LIS5313 with me via email and I asked her to share her study with TTW readers. Thanks Lindy! Michael Recently, I read a post from Mashable.com about Twitter’s staggering growth in 2008: Twitter grew 752 percent in 2008 for a total of 4.43 million unique visitors in December! What does this mean for libraries? As Twittermania spreads, more and more of their patrons are will use it to communicate, socialize and make connections. As such, libraries should see the unlimited potential Twitter can have to connect them to their community and beyond. Libraries must adjust […]